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|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction booksAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, several thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of them of local interest Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to South Carolina natives regain her confidence and visitorsto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. This Anuri is his first novelbattling alcoholism, howeverfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and you may be surprised to learn that it secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is an enjoyable chick lit/womenthe new focus of Ophelia's fiction romponline empire. Three girlfriends meet up again in Charleston; in their early forties Can she save her sister, they're facing turning points in their professional and personal lives. As they reminisce about summers spent together perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at Folly Beach during college and resume their communal marijuana smoking habit, they summon the courage to decide what they want from middle age and refresh their sex lives.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)1529153298|title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelistmean, Helle Helle, [[This Should be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translatorhonestly...)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]] She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similarthough. Women have been disappearing. It wasnWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn'tsound quite so frightening. ThatMiv's upset because she's not totally a bad thing – many people will enjoy overheard that her father wants to move the fast-paced, dialogue driven novel that family 'Down South'The Dyslexic Hearts Club. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she' isll do anything to prevent that. It just wasnShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum't exactly what I was expectings stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Baron1035906708|title=BlackheathDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Househusband James is happy We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in BlackheathDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. HeHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's started doing stand-up again so that he too has an achievement to make it more manageable in his life to balance wife Alice's award winning poetrythe States. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well When she was back in Athens - supposedly so all is great. Elsewhere in that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor husband Richard, Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her own career and children Niamh and teenage Michael. Sometimes happiness isn't enough though and, as the worlds made no secret of the two families start to mingleher preference for her elder sister, things start changing for each of themJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimAlexander McCall Smith|title=AfterlightThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents The Perfect Passion Company is really a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all it takes to make your world fall apartthe online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. You might hope that Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a new beginning in trip to Canada to get away for a different high school while. Katie is going to jumpstart your life; that coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need come home to get byEdinburgh. But before Sophie gets And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the chance Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to find outcharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, she to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is visited by Evehaving a terrifically bad day. Eve isn’t like other girlsHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. She is beautiful Oh, and mesmerizing someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and Eve needs Sophie it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to be her go-to girldeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Because Eve can’t do much So fortunately for herself Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since she diedBenny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Eve Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a ghost and dealing with the dead waitress slash Private Investigator who have finds herself roped into Benny''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s lifes wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adriana TrigianiKatherine Howe|title=All The Stars In The HeavensA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=It was 1935 Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and Loretta Young wanted fame and success in Hollywoodbeing made to work there from a young age. Part When she hears there is to be a hanging of it was being young (just twenty one) and beautiful but she was also conscious that some pirates in the money town, she brought in mattered decides to her familygo and watch. She was hungry for love too: her father had left when she was Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a youngboy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. Her step-father had done little better She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and there was then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low''need'' for s pirate ship as a man she could love and look up tocabin boy. She developed soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a reputation for falling mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in love with her leading men: first it was Spencer Tracy but rip roaring tale of life on the set of ''The Call of the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - and he for herocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kaui Hart Hemmings1471180158|title= The PossibilitiesMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= SarahJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son , Bo, 'has just died in an avalanche his problems'. He's asthmatic and as such this is the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a book very much about bereavement frequent flier in the local A&E and grieving sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and what nextput in the wrong. It's odd was going to come to think that a basis of personal tragedy made this an intriguing read, but that was the casehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597780</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank HurstB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Postmistress of Nong KhaiRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Mike Rawlins' rise through Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the ranks in the investigation department of Customs and Excise has been steadystrange, culminating in his dream posting: attachment to the British Embassyreclusive Bear, Thailand. It gets even better when he realises a name is brought up far from his past is also operating out of bustling cities and busy human society, in the country on the other side forests of the lawWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Mike's attempts to nail him over the years have become personal After Bear dies and nowa brief sojourn in human company, thanks to local informant or 'Postmistress' Lekand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, prosecution is Petr goes on a possibility. What Mike doesn't realise is journey through the cost forest, broadcasting the chase will exact… not yet anywaystrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890573</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author= James MacManus|title= Midnight in Berlin|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Berlin – 1938Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. In the British Embassy She was a very bright student, military attaché Colonel Macrae prepares to defy his ambassador and governmenta bit too nerdy if truth be told, and assassinate Hitler. Elsewhere, Sara Sternschein appears on stage in suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her role as the lead in the Gestapocase it's brothel – the Salon Kittycontagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She has no choice, had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her twin brother is being held in a concentration camp. In the Gestapo Headquarters, Obergruppenfuhrer Joaqim Bonner waits Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and watches – with his eyes on Sara Sternschein as his secret weaponReggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. As Colonel Macrae gathers intelligence for She went to his mission house and he finds himself drawn raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to Salon Kitty – but does Sara hold the key to thwarting Hitler, or is Macrae being manipulated?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650335</amazonuk>give her a lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Virginia Macgregor1472263936|title=The Astonishing Return of Norah WellsFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5

|summary=FayIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, AdamGreek by birth, had left the girls teenager Ella family home and little 6 year old Willa seem a happy family. They are on the wholerefused to return, itbut Mary and Hamish (Helena's just Ella who isn'tparents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Fay, named by Her trip to the ladies across family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the road 'The Mother that Stayed' moved in after Norah, 'The Mother that Left', wentfirst of several annual visits. Now she's taken Norah's place in She grew to love her grandmother and the family's life maid, Dina, but was wary - and Adams' bedfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Ella just wants her mother He was proud of his close connections to come home the Junta and then, 6 years after she went, Norah doesexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. How will she fit in His prejudices included Helena's red hair and, just as importantly, why did she come back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554200</amazonuk>green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SeddonDean Koontz|title=Try Not To BreatheAfter Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=In The village is isolated and poor. It''Try not to Breathe'' Holly Seddon offers an addition to s surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the somewhat overflowing thriller shelvesvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Of courseThe black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the reason this particular segment village and that is bursting at the seams is because thrillersreason Volushka, especially psychological onesa drunken, are just so compelling. And there have been some good self- and hugely successful - books in this category out there indulgent, lazy lout of late (before-I-go-to-sleep-I'll-be-gone-with-a-girl-on-a-train)man is tolerated. So how does Holly Seddon match up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399453</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J Paul HendersonB0BYF82CXT|title= The Last of the BowmansSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=When Greg Bowman's eighty'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-three year old father Lyle dies he leaves some unfinished business. It's up to Greg – black sheep detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of the Bowmans boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – to start learning the meaning of the word responsibility and sort his errant family outglamorous, preferably without them noticing what he's up to successful and assisted only by the gentle nudging of his father's ghostvery much in love – move in next door. Can he do it before he returns to his altogether more carefree Despite their different outlooks on life in America, the couples befriend each other and without causing any further trouble? As Greg begins life appears to sort out his father's house and affairsimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, he untangles some complicated webs of deception and unearths a few family secrets, including some of his owntheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843442779</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Haraldur Erlendsson and Keith HagenbachShalini Boland|title= The Man Who Drew Triangles: Magician, mystic or out of his mind?Silent Bride|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary='MagicianAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, mysticclever, or out of his mind?' Consider the following: 27funny; total and utter husband-year-old Olafmaterial. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, disembarks a flight from his homelandsuccessful, Icelandconfident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, seats himself on a broken terminal at Heathrow airportAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and begins excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to meditate, celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to reach face his guides. Attracting approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the attention of Irish airport securityaltar is, he who is eventually sectioned and escorted waiting for her to a psychiatric unitbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785351478</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lina Wolff and Frank Perry (translator)1787636003|title= Bret Easton Ellis and the Other DogsThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Upstairs, a flat where mother and daughter struggle from pay cheque to pay cheque; downstairs, It was the love nest of a dying writer summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and her last of many conquests. Bret Easton Ellis Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the Other Dogs is a multilayered testimonial to the writerisland. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, the eccentric Alba Cambóperhaps, gathered by Aracelinaive, the teenager upstairs. Through Araceli's bird'sso when thirty-four-year-eye viewold Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, anecdotes unfold as told she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by lovers, business acquaintances (often both – him. Alistair worked for with Alba Cambó you can never know)Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the short stories of Cambó herselfgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276649</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danielle McLaughlinAmanda Craig|title=Dinosaurs on Other PlanetsThree Graces

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=Seeing as this book is clearly a talented author hitting the ground running, I will dispense with any major preamble. We start with a tale Few styles of a daughter affected by contemporary fiction interest me like the emotions state-of her parents as they separate – and -the influence of a certain school-teacher – from the mothernation novel. There's point something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of view. An ancient input shows how alien, and the modern day domesticity how regularand capture it, crafting an image of the isolation of a woman can feel, country as events are peppered by minor acts of destructionit stands in one particular moment. But men can To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be alienated too – especially one, a reluctant guest at a party for children hosted by someone he once had an affair embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with – he feels the new form genre of contemporary social fiction at this influence in the light of another one he has had to try and abandonpoint. 'All About Alice' – that's what the title character wants to say but She has nobody to speak it to, but is it her – mid-40s and single, living with her father – that is most removed from her dreams or her old friend and now child factory, Marian? And we complete such a lap gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the calendar with day into the wintry tale lives of her characters in a man unable to tell his work superiors of the problems he faces at home – a new homeway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, recently built like so many one sees while driving round Irelandgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473613701</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary D Schmidt152915118X|title=Orbiting JupiterPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve year-old Jack ''Pineapple Street'' is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Josephthe story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. But Joseph They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like most fourteen year-oldsto move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. He They won's troubled: t need any of the rumour is furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to kill his teachercall Sasha 'the gold digger'. And there She's something else about Joseph, too: he has a daughterliving in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tasha KavanaghEmily Critchley|title=Things We Have In CommonOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Yasmin is fifteen and seriously overweight - her capacity 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for consuming food will amaze and sicken. She's bullied at school and even almost her own mother finds her just whole life, but now she is facing a little bit weird: let's not go into what move as her stepfather thinks about son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose hermemory. Her father died a while However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, but Yasmin has never really come to terms with his death and still has the feeling worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that everything would somehow might be OK if only Terry was still aroundthe thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. ThereAfter 's a girl in Yasminseeing's class called Alice and Yasmin is so Lucy in awe of the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her that , she stalks starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. One day, in And yet as she remembers the school playgroundpast, she spots a man watching Alice as carefully as she does is forgetting more and becomes obsessed by the idea that the man is going more in her day to abduct Aliceday life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782115943</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate AtkinsonMadelaine Lucas|title=A God in RuinsThirst for Salt

|summary=Teddy Todd never really expected ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to survive be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the waryear-long relationship that once defined her. As Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a bomber pilot it wasn't something which you could rely on and he certainly knew man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the statisticssummer after. But - Set against all the odds, he came through it, albeit backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with some time spent as a prisoner of war. On balance he had a good warher older lover, but time will see him married to Nancydepicting its all-consuming nature, father to Viola how it changed her perspective on both romantic and grandfather to Sunny and Bertie - familial relationships and left with the feeling that how it's more difficult to have a good peace than a good waraltered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776645</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Jessica TreadwayGeorgina Moore|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=If She Did ItDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=Hanna I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and Joe had two daughters. Iris, the elder, had done well at school remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and gone on to be a medical student, but Dawn had always struggled. Hanna worried that affecting it was something to do with the birth when Dawn might have been starved of oxygen for a brief moment. She It was never brighta gripping, bullied at school and suffered from amblyopia or lazy eye. Dawn called it 'lacy eye'. In her late teens she had a boyfriend - tallemotionally wounding read, good-looking Rud and was obviously besotted with him and brought him home for Thanksgiving, but the pair left the next morning under a cloud with Joe accusing Rud rereading my review of having stolen from the house whilst everyone else it my main takeaway was out. That night Hanna and Joe were attacked in their beds; Joe died from his injuries and Hanna was left severely scarred and with no memory of the events of that nightI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555266</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RansomLucy Ashe|title=Beneath The LakeClara and Olivia|rating=34.5

|summary=The Mercer family year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the holiday of outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a lifetime at the somewhat remote Blundstone Lake in Nebraskadancer. It is all the Some things a camping holiday should that can be; tranquillity taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and beautiful scenery in spades and lots of good old-fashioned family fun. When another family arrivesome things, the Mercers try not to feel disappointed that their solitude has been encroached upon and do their best to keep out of the other family's way'je ne sais quoi'', but when that don't come from the newcomersclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ' family disharmony becomes violent 'joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and murderous, The Mercers have no option but to become rather more acquainted with them than they had bargained for. And so their lives are forever altereda star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555223</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan CoeHeather Fawcett|title=Number 11Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=ThereEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's a great deal of significance in work, the title very first encyclopaedia of ''Number 11''faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. It's So when she finds herself far, far North in the common abbreviation for the home small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Chancellor of the Exchequervillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, as well as a bus route around the outskirts of Birmingham which provides a useful haven for those who can't afford nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the heating on at homeright track. It's also Jonathan CoeEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's eleventh novelfrustration. On a level more personal to But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the characters in faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the book Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it's also was the earthquake, deep in the number of floors below ground ocean floor, which are being added to a house created the tsunami and this, in Chelsea owned by an obscenely-rich familyturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Even more obscene is The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the owner list of priorities but - six months after the house doesntsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't know what she wants a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that floor for - everything that could possibly be added (swimming pool with palm trees, wine cellar, bank vault, staff quarters...) is on he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the other floors or dog jumped in the house itself. But Mrs Gunn wants it because she can have it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670923796</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author= Nils Schou|title= Salinger's Letters|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary=Dentist-turned-author Dan Moller is struggling, both financially and mentally, when an opportunity presents itself in the form of a pair of Americans. They offer to sweep away Moller's financial worries in exchange for his correspondence with J. D. Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye. What follows is, for Dan Moller, a journey to America to meet Salinger, and, for the reader, a journey through these letters into Moller's relationship with his depression, the lives of the eccentrics in his writers' collective, and into Western intelligentsia ranging from Kiergegaard's writings to a psychedelic apparition of pop icons featuring Andy Warhol and Woody Allen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124656</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chuck PalahniukChristopher Bowden|title=Beautiful YouMr Magenta

|summary=Meet Penny Harrigan. And letChristopher Bowden's hope your introduction to her latest novel is more gentle than that we have on the first page of this book, where she is being raped in front a patient untangling of a full court house, who – male to the bone – sit back and say nothingseemingly ordinary woman's life, if not whip carried out their camera phoneby her nephew after she has died. Once people take her out on The aunt who always provided a gurney safe harbour and recognise her, we can start from the beginning, where she is a lowly underling at little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a law firm, having failed too many exams to progress satisfactorily. The company is where the world's richest man is in legal negotiations having left the world's best much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and most beautiful actress, and lo and behold he just happens it seems to pick Penny him an obligation to replace her with, even if she doesn't think of herself as the most beautiful girl aroundfind it all out. But what exactly is it she is wanted for, and can her apolitical style of feminism and aspirations be met?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958767X</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa HillJennifer Mason|title=The Hotel on Mulberry BayPartitions of Unity

|summary=Penny and Elle Harte are sistersHere at Bookbag Towers, but they couldn't be more different. The two had an idyllic childhoodwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, brought up dominatrix and unintentional detective in the family hotel in the scenic Irish coastal town [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of Mulberry Baydisappearances. Ambitious Elle always had the urge to spread her wings and flyIn ''Partitions of Unity'', whereas she sets her dreamy younger sister was content mind to stay at home and help her parents out in the hotelsolving a murder. As time passed, the sisters no longer had the close bond they once shared, especially with Elle living in London, enjoying her successful and demanding role as an architect. A family tragedy brings the sisters together once more; however, and family loyalties are tested as never before.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471127710</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John SearanckeWill Carver|title=Prunes for BreakfastThe Daves Next Door

|summary=Edward Searancke was called up Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to serve detonate his country vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in 1940backwards order, not long after leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and we hear his story from initial call-uppop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, through a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the years of preparation for the invasion of France2004 Olympics, to his eventual release as a Prisoner of War and return home to attempt to pick up the pieces of everyday life. Itwomen's track coach with a delightful mixture yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the mundane -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(the difficulties of getting dry clothings, problems with his feetx) and the dramatic (being surrounded and captured in , on a cheap oil painting, an orchard erotic art dealer in Northern France and his life as Georgia...'' This is just a prisoner sample of war) the cast of characters and much settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of the this mystery story is told through the genuine letters from Searancke to his wife which were handed to his son after his father's deathgoes like this.. John Searancke tells us the story of his father's war.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784625051</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0B2N7MVYM|title=Chance Developments: Unexpected Love StoriesThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary=Sometimes, if IIt'm s the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in a cafe by myselfcontext, I like to watch the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people around me and imagine stories about their lives's minds. Just The world has barely had a single sentencechance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, overheard, can lead to wonderous tales it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of mystery and intrigue whilst I sip my cappuccino! murder. So I was delighted to sit down to read With the latest offering from AMScurrent state of medical knowledge, not only because he wrote it, 's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but because he wrote it after looking at 5 different black and white photographsJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, and then imagining the stories behind thema relatively new prison. Who are all these peopleHe's just getting used to his roommate, and what are their stories? Each story is uniqueMervyn, and yet they all have one abiding link...lovelearning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973295</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author= Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)|title=This Should be Written in the Present Tense|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= This is the first novel of Helle Helle's, an award winning Danish author, to be translated into English. It is easy to see from this novel why she is gaining accolades in her Danish homeland. The rhythmic, natural flow of the narrative is mesmerising and appears Move on to lull you through the book. It has some lovely, spare sentences of description: ''There were run-down cottages with open doors and news on the radio. Gulls flocked around an early harvester in the late sun''. But mostly, it is written in a modernist, almost stream of consciousness style, which I found refreshing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Graphic Novels Reviews]]